It's a gas!

[ldayment]

Where does the term "It's a gas" come from?

[Quizmonster]

A 'gas' was a joke in Anglo-Irish slang. James Joyce uses it in Dubliners, published in 1914. By the 1950s in the USA, it had taken on the meaning of anything pleasing or exciting.

[crokepark]

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[wilmafellows]

Maybe they refer to laughing gas.....as it is a gas means funor a laugh